OK, I'm ending my hate-reading here. In conclusion, DH Lawrence really needed an ass kicking.
I'm reading DH Lawrence because he wrote about a train ride we were not able to make while we were in Sardinia, but he's just insufferable. This is how he works: He literally judges people by their appearance, determining their character by how properly masculine or feminine they look to him. He complains about he ways of the country his is visiting that are different from those of his own stupid country. All this in a tone that reads like an especially mean-spirited Niles Crane. Good lord, fuck the classics!
Yeah, so DH Lawrence is extremely racist and shallow, but apparently a formal classist? His travelogue is a streak of classic white supremacist douchery.
DH Lawrence was an idiot.
"Hey, I only have one germ." —The guy
Dare I say, I'm enjoying a Friday night? I saw some stuff on the internet, but then the guy showed me a bunch of numbers he came up with, and I remembered that dinner is taken care of, thanks to work leftovers.
11-5-4-3. Long pause between third and fourth sets because a ten-year-old rode up on a bike and worked in.
Into the void
10-5-4-3. Either my grip was weak or the bar was slippery. The run was not that bad, finally!
Cool rabbit guy
11-4-3-3-3. It seems like a hot day, which is intimidating, but I'm finding that it doesn't get that much hotter when you exercise. Also, there was a nice breeze afterward.
Every once in a while, I walk around and flash to a future in which I'm bound to a hospital bed, then I become really appreciative of walking around and vacuuming, et al.
I guess once you get a child's allergy under control, the Engine spawns a new one?
10-2-2-2-2-4. As is natural, slipping off the peak a bit.
The guy: "The train can go under a garden now!" I actually think this is a fantastic idea.
Oh, yeah, earlier today: 11-3-3-3-3. The run was a slog.
I locked myself out of the apartment for a couple of hours earlier today. There's not much to do out there for someone without a wallet or phone, as you'd expect. I walked down to the square to check the time, tossed some stuff out of my basement, got a book from a Little Free Library, found an old notebook and pen and wrote a few things down.
I'm rather taken by the idea of a map that is largely mountains and natural features but also shows individual buildings in towns. (The scale here is such 1 cm = 1 km, so many of these buildings are about 100 m long.)
It's been a while since we've had a rainy day, and I'm savoring the hell out of it. I kinda want to write a D&D adventure by hand.
Also, cleaned up some old code this morning before the guy got up; now feeling really like I can make stuff, even knowing I probably won't have much more time today.
Blessed
The guy: "That's poison lava!"
🤔
11-5-3-3. Still acclimating to the run; was puffin' rather hard.
Welp, I ordered myself a Linux laptop.
I've gotten up at 5 two days in a row now! Computer's been busted, but I've been able to use the time to make eggs.
TIL: Kids have imaginations potent enough to make them cry when they come up with sad stuff to imagine.